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Originally Posted by Soncy
I just think it's so funny how paranoid she's been at times during this game, and then sits there and gets voted out with an idol in her pocket. ...When the play she is suggesting is not very good for the people who she is suggesting it to, and yet they are apparently agreeing to it without much fuss. Not suspicious at all?
There is nothing surprising at all about this. The awareness to notice people agreeing without much fuss would be cause for suspicion would be the same awareness to not suggest something to them that isn't in their best interests.
Grading on a curve of all Survivor contestants, Andrea gets a B, but at the end of the day she showed some major flaws in an ability to understand other people. I wouldn't call it narcissism, but perhaps a proclivity to overemphasize what is happening to herself and an inability to be aware of other people's povs. We see this in a few examples just since the merge:
1. Her sudden scrambling and need to change the vote because the bros were going to vote for her, as opposed to someone else in SRU, even though it didn't change the situation at all.
2. Her belief that Brenda is a threat directly to her = Brenda is a threat to everyone and needs to go. No one but her would view Brenda as a challenge threat greater than or equal to Eddie or Eric. If I ever played with Andrea, I could be the biggest threat in every possible way and will go under her radar as long as I'm not threatening in the same ways she is. Which shouldn't be a problem, because I'm a fat guy with terrible balance.
3. Her thinking that being so close to Eddie was viewed by her alliance as a benefit to them and not a threat to herself because it questions her loyalty. If I were her, I would have offered up Eddie as the
first bro to go, even if I didn't truly feel that way (and it would've been shot down anyway since Reynold and Malcolm were seen as bigger threats) for two reasons. First, I'd feel confident in Eddie's vote at FTC so i don't want to go to the end with him anyway. But second and much more importantly, it's a sign of loyalty to my alliance and makes no question about where I stand. See: Malcolm last seaspn when he voted out cookie monster.
4. The way she nonchalantly threw out both Brenda and Dawn to Cochran as possible vote outs. I actually believe that if she hadn't said Dawn, Cochran's #1 ally, there'd be a chance that Cochran wouldn't have been rustled up enough to get rid of her.
So yeah, it seemed like all season that Andrea had the greatest potential to go home due to FPS, and it's no surprise that this happened. As it was already mentioned, knowing when to stand pat and NOT make a big move is just as vital as knowing when to strike. It's actually pretty interesting that this was pretty much the downfall of Corrine, Malcolm AND Andrea, all players whose desire to make a big move blinded them from recognizing that not only was it probably not the best move at the time for their own respective games, but that the circumstances were not even right for having it succeed.